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Student Research

Some of the best websites for you to use for your research and projects!

Copyright-Free Media Websites

  • Pixabay – Copyright-free images, videos and music you can use anywhere
  • Openverse – Millions of photos, songs and videos — available for free and legal use under the terms of CC’s copyright licenses
  • Pics4Learning – Thousands of copyright-free images for teacher and student use.
  • Wikimedia Commons – Millions of freely usable media files

Citation Help

  • NoodleTools – help with your research projects, including citing your sources in MLA, APA or Chicago/Turabian styles and creating Works Cited/References pages
  • Purdue Owl– Provides citation help for MLA, APA and Chicago

Open Access Resources in All Areas

  • Digital Commons Network – Contains free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of colleges and universities in a variety of subject areas.
  • Directory of Open Access Journals – Online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
  • BASE  – Search engine specifically for academic resources. Provides more than 100 million documents from more than 5,000 sources.
  • World Digital Library – Primary Sources from countries and cultures around the world.
  • Infotopia – Academic search engine accessing websites selected by librarians and teachers
  • Digital Public Library of America – Provides access to photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents from libraries, archives, and museums

 History and Government Websites

Science Websites

  • ScienceOpen.com – Freely accessible research platform that puts scientific research in context.
  • WorldWideScience.org – A global science gateway made up of national and international scientific databases and portals.
  • Public Library of Science – Provides peer-reviewed, open access journal articles in all areas of science and medicine.
  • Science Advances – Open access research from Science magazine
  • Frontiers – Open access science platform
  • EurekAlert! – Global source for science news
  • Science in the Classroom – a collection of freely available annotated research papers from the Science family of journals
  • Science.gov – access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.
  • Data.gov – home of the US Government’s open data
  • Dryad – curated resource that makes research data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable.
  • re3data.org – a global registry of research data repositories from different academic disciplines

Health Websites

Literature Websites

College and Career